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roinn

roinn

Irish

Noun

roinn f (genitive singular ranna, nominative plural ranna)

  1. share, portion, lot
  2. allotment
  3. legacy
  4. some
  5. division (portion)

Declension

Synonyms

  • (share, amount): cion
  • (share, portion): cuid

Derived terms

  • rannach1 (apportioning, sharing; open-handed, adjective)

Noun

roinn f (genitive singular roinne, nominative plural ranna)

  1. part
  2. division (of government)
  3. continent
  4. department (of government, of a university)
  5. province

Declension

Synonyms

Derived terms

Related terms

  • rann m (party, side (in a dispute); adherent, partisan)
  • roinnt f (division, share)

Verb

roinn (present analytic roinneann, future analytic roinnfidh, verbal noun roinnt, past participle roinnte) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. (mathematics, biology, etc.) divide
    1. separate into parts
    2. share, apportion
  2. (card games, business, etc.) deal, distribute
  3. involve, entail

Conjugation

References

  • 1 rann (‘part’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • rannaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • “roinn(t)” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • “roinnim” in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, Irish Texts Society, 1927, by Patrick S. Dinneen.
  • "roinn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology 1

From Middle Irish roinded (parts, separates; distributes, apportions), from Old Irish rann (part), from Proto-Celtic *rannā (compare Welsh rhan (part)).

Noun

roinn f (genitive singular roinne, plural roinnean)

  1. group, sect, section, class
  2. category, allotment
  3. municipality
  4. distribution, division, lot (portion)
  5. province, region
  6. share
  7. some
Synonyms
Derived terms

Verb

roinn (past roinn, future roinnidh, verbal noun roinn, past participle roinnte)

  1. divide, partition; impart, distribute
  2. (card games) deal
Derived terms
  • co-roinn (share)
  • so-roinn (divisible)

Etymology 2

Noun

roinn m

  1. genitive singular of ronn

References

  • 1 rann (‘part’)” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • rannaid” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9